[Toptube]

[Renfrew]

[luvcraft]

[Rud31]

Really repetitive is the main complaint I've heard.
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[notbov]

[BotageL]

[Ronnoc]

I really, really liked Viking. As far as repetition, I'd say that's mostly just the first hour or two until you unlock the stealth attack (or if you don't use the stealth attack, presumably.) It's the kind of stealth-lite game that I really enjoy. Most of the time you're just taking out camps of demon dudes, but if you look around, you can usually pick half or more of them off before getting into open combat. Occasionally you have to sneak through huge cites, but even then you can get caught and kill everyone to escape depending on how many guys there are. The first time I did one of those, I spent the whole time on the edge of my seat, thinking I was doing it wrong.

To temper my enthusiasm, the first bit is really horrible because you don't have any moves and you have to arggo guys away from the horde to fight them one-on-one and it's a huge hassle. One might not enjoy it as much as I did if they have different musical tastes. With a custom soundtrack of folk metal it was a better heavy metal game than Brutal Legend, but the built-in music is pretty bad. One time during one of the huge battles, there was a glitch and everyone, friendly and not, just stood in one place not doing anything, but that was hilarious and not really a mark against the game. OH! It had two of the worst fetch quests I've ever seen. One ends in a joke, but the other is literally just walking for about 10 minutes and back.

This is, again, probably just me, but I liked the experience of wandering around the lonely environments more than Shadow of the Colossus. It's like $5, I'd say go for it if you liked Spartan (although I think 108 hate hate hates it.)

[Sniper Honeyviper]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/05/02/binary_domain_japanese_trailer/

The different music themes are the most interesting change to me. I wonder if both songs were created for their respective trailers.

Now that I watch it again, the contrast between the videos almost seems generational. The US trailer is very much in the style of current generation promotional teasers (although the music seems to have oddly distinct stylistic choices, which admittedly may not matter if it wasn't made for the trailer/game), while the Japanese trailer almost feels like something from a 90s PS1 game. Not in how it looks, but how it flows from '38 onward - it's reminiscent of stuff like the Einhander opening, that whole era of creating intensely kinetic CG sequences, which themselves were a clear evolution of arcade game attract modes.

man, I need to get to sleep.

Oh, right, Nippon Ichi isn't going out of business: http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/05/13/nippon_ichi_earnings_up/

[Mr. Mechanical]

[Mr. Mechanical]

Also Binary Domain just keeps looking better every time I see it.
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[luvcraft]

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

The entire plot of Modern Warfare 3.

SPOILERS: New York City and Berlin are invaded, yet somehow there is no global thermonuclear war. I guess deterrence theory/mutually assured destruction is thrown out the window (even more so than Modern Warfare 2) when ya gotta look cool. Battlefield 3 seems to be doing the same thing. We are now entering the age of The Battle of Dorking (i.e. imperialist paranoia invasion literature) of videogames.

[luvcraft]

Chrono Trigger coming to US VC on Monday.
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[Mikey]

Man I thought they were going into space :(

[Mikey]

[Loki Laufeyson]

[CubaLibre]

[LandRoverAttack]

[negativedge]

nah, this is what's left of Infinity Ward

we think

anyway who could possibly care about the story

[CubaLibre]

Well, whatever.

[negativedge]

u must be dum

[Teflon]

I don't know the difference between MW1 and 2

[Dracko]

It ain't Treyarch. It's whatever remains of Infinity Ward, alongside Sledgehammer and Raven.

Story seems dull and Makarov as the main antagonist misses the point completely, but maybe somewhere in the delivery there'll be subtext about all the political manipulation so that everyone comes out white-washed and smelling of roses whilst Soap and Price are still amoral psychotics.

Severely doubt it, though. Maybe pan-global apocalyptic urban warfare will make up for it. :(

Additionally, just for CoSo.

[luvcraft]

[evnvnv]

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

[Dracko]

[skelethulu]

I quit my job today and it's on the internet

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/13/ea-staffer-says-goodbye-with-swords-and-sworcery-esque-creation/

[Toptube]

[Toptube]

word on the net is that SONY has the internal PSN Dev network up and running. That apparently means that core gaming functions could be up in a few days. I'm thinking they are pushing to have at least that portion running by the release of L.A. Noire.



*The spiritual sequel to Warhawk (PS3)
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[Lasakon]

Cold war nostalgia just won't die.
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[luvcraft]

[luvcraft]

Kongregate is teaming up with Tetsuya Mizuguchi for a "Child of Eden -inspired synaesthetic browser game" competition. The grand prize is $10k.

At first I was like {inspiration; the distant rumble of thunder; the peach-gray of a sky just before dawn} but then I noticed that in exchange for the prize money you're basically giving Kongregate all rights to your game and I was like {the disgust of being taken for a rube; the smell of burning plastic; the taste of soap when you expected white chocolate}, and then I decided I could just be inspired by this contest to make my own Mizuguchi-esque synaesthetic game and sell it myself for at least ten times the prize money AND keep all the rights to it and I was like {the satisfaction of finding a better solution to a puzzle than the intended one; the feel of cracking your knuckles as you approach an opponent who has underestimated your strength; the dark red of stage lights on rippling velvet curtains, and the cliffhanging coda of the orchestra, at the end of the second act}.
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[kthorjensen]

[Rud31]

It doesn't seem that impossible mathematically on XBLIG.
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[luvcraft]

[another god]

Also, as an indie developer you can still make money without having to win Kongregate's contest.
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[SuperWes]

My Playstation 3 is currently downloading a firmware update. PSN is up I guess.

-Wes
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[Moogs]

No, it isn't.

[SuperWes]

Nope. It's not. But it's updated for some sort of eventuality.

-Wes
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